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Comment by jefftk

That isn't what "fraud" means in this context. Ad fraud is when you have something other than a real user loading or clicking on ads. For example, I could stand up a headless browser to click on the ads on my site. This would get me more of a payout from my advertisers, but would also be fraud.

A stable identifier makes identifying this sort of behavior much easier.

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself)

parent jefftk 5 years ago

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